The centre's new website details a list of
projects that its researchers will look at. Projects include:

Science, value, and the future of intelligence

Policy and responsible innovation

The value alignment problem

Kinds of intelligence

Autonomous weapons — prospects for regulation

AI: Agents and persons

The centre, which is due to start work this month and will
eventually have its own building on Mill Lane in the heart of
Cambridge, also writes on its website that its aim is to build a
new interdisciplinary community of researchers, with strong links
to technologists and the policy world.

Led by Cambridge philosophy professor Huw Price, the centre, will
work in conjunction with the university’s Centre for the Study of
Existential Risk (CSER), which is funded by Skype cofounder Jaan
Tallinn and looks at emerging risks to humanity’s future
including climate change, disease, warfare, and artificial
intelligence.

Zoubin Ghahramani, deputy director of the new centre and
professor of information engineering at Cambridge, said in a
statement last December: "The field of machine learning continues
to advance at a tremendous pace, and machines can now achieve
near-human abilities at many cognitive tasks—from recognising
images to translating between languages and driving cars.

"We need to understand where this is all leading, and ensure that
research in machine intelligence continues to benefit humanity.
The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence will bring
together researchers from a number of disciplines, from
philosophers to social scientists, cognitive scientists and
computer scientists, to help guide the future of this technology
and study its implications."

Stephen Cave, director of the centre, told Business Insider: "So
far, the core team is about 15 people. We are now starting to
recruit post-doctoral researchers (about 12 in the first year).
But not all of these people will be based in Cambridge, and not
all of those who are based in Cambridge will be physically in our
premises (because they already have offices)."